The letter published today in Seven Days, "The Next Right Thing," recognizes that Vermont's housing homeless people during the pandemic in motel rooms was the right thing to do. It calls on the Vermont governor to do the next right thing: permanently house the homeless on 44 acres of now vacant land on which 200 affordable homes adjacent the airport had been bulldozed in 2015 because of unbearable F-16 jet noise. But to reclaim that land for housing the even louder F-35 jet noise has to stop. The letter notes that the Governor has the power, under the Constitution, to halt training flights of the F-35 jets at the airport. And to order the Guard, instead, to rebuild homes for the homeless on those 44 acres, just as the governor ordered the Guard to build 3 hospitals in March to care for Coronavirus patients.

Of course, the governor won't do any such things for the homeless or to abolish the dangerous and illegal basing of F-35 jets in a city absent mass public pressure. That is why People for Peace and Security launched a boycott of the Burlington Airport (BTV). Support the BTV boycott. Sign on to the boycott pledge: https://tinyurl.com/btv2020boycott